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America’s
Public Lands and Protected Areas
Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) Updates
FGDC National Boundaries Group Meeting
Esri Federal Users Conference
March 21, 2018
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Roadmap
1. PAD-US vision?
2. What’s new in 2?
3. What’s next
4. Q&A
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1. What is PAD-US?
What do we all want?
▪ Find out about any park or protected area
▪ Anywhere in the U.S.
▪ All in one data set
That’s the vision for PAD-US
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Lands for recreation, habitat, timber and more
GIS data
Supports many users
Federal Lands Vision
Complete Accurate Standardized Annual
aggregation of federally owned lands and waters
with management designations to fulfill common agency needs.
Aiming for: full parcel-based inventory + automated updates
PAD-US managed by USGS
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Required for USGS Gap Analysis Mission
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National Biogeographic Map - https://maps.usgs.gov/biogeography
PAD-US Partnership
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Partial list
▪ States
▪ Federal
▪ Nonprofit
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Collaboration builds PAD-US
2. What’s new in 2?
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PAD-US 2.0 Publication Status - May
FLWG Fact Sheet
▪ 14 land managing and
related agencies
▪ Collaboration to support
aggregation of federal land
ownership and
management designations
into PAD-US
▪ Sharing best practices,
improving internal systems,
raising awareness
Federal updates
https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/federal-lands-workgroup/19
Agency Reports
http://www.protectedlands.net/data-stewards/ 20
Improved data quality
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Identify, manage and correct boundary overlaps
Improved data quality
FLWG Review Tool
▪ Review topology/overlap errors
▪ Federal and state
▪ Census state boundary standard
Thirty major state updates
22Twelve updates from PAD-US State Steward Network + NGOs
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Nonprofit database integration
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New easement data
27 million acres 24
Easements(overlays private
or public)
Fee Ownerships
Proclamation Boundaries
(administrative)
Marine Protected Areas
Wilderness Area
Inventoried Roadless Area
Research Natural Area
Wild & Scenic River
+ many others
Policy DesignationBoundaries
A better geodatabase
PAD-US 2.0
A better geodatabase
Downloadable statisticsAll U.S. States, Territories Continental U.S.
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Downloadable statisticsAll U.S. States, Territories Continental U.S.
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New online help system
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Getting the data
Data downloads
Web services
Online mappers
Downloadableprint map files
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3. What’s next for PAD-US?
The PAD-US Vision realized . . .
▪ Every park
▪ Everywhere
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PAD-US Action Plan
PAD-US report - www.protectedlands.net/vision summary, full reports
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Call to action
Seeking partners to complete PAD-US:
• Finish local / regional parks
• Improve federal and tribal data
• Support states and NCED
• Make system more efficient
• Do more outreach and user support
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You can help
▪ Highlight the need for great geospatial
data – data stewards need support!
▪ PAD-US is a national resource -
support collaborations, use standards,
help fill gaps
▪ Encourage use of PAD-US, and tell us
about examples and needs
▪ Help us spread the word!
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Contacts
Lisa Johnson
PAD-US Coordinator, USGS Cooperator
PAD-US is a product of USGS Core Science Systems (CSS)
http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus
Julie Prior-Magee
PAD-US Dataset Manager, USGS
4. Discussion